Nuclear Physics 622
(Fermionic Many-Body Problem)
Spring 2008

Witek Nazarewicz and Nicolas Schunck

Place: Physics 512, Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 8:45-10:00 AM
SYLLABUS
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REFERENCES
Recommended textbook:
  • "Nuclear Many Body Problem" Ring & Schuck, 3rd printing, 2004 Springer, ISBN: 3-540-212
  • "Theory of Nuclear Systems", Jacek Dobaczewski (unpublished)
Supplementary texts:
  • "An Advanced Course in Modern Nuclear Physics", Ed. Arias and Lozano, (Lecture notes in physics, vol. 581), Springer 2001 ISBN: 3-540-42409-1
  • "Frontiers in Nuclear Physics", Ed. S. Kuyucak, World Scientific 1999, ISBN: 9810239149

 

LECTURE NOTES
Jan. 7: Lipkin Model Jan. 12: The Fock Space (1) Jan. 14: Second quantization representation (1)
Jan. 21: Lipkin Model Eigenproblem, Computations Jan. 23 (for Jan. 26): Second quantization representation (2) Jan. 30 (for Jan. 28) Wick's Theorem
Feb. 2: Wick's Theorem in the Fock's Space Feb. 4: Class material review Feb. 9: Density Matrices
Feb. 13 (for Feb. 11): Atomic Coherent States Feb. 16: Bogoliubov Transformation (1) Feb. 18: Bogoliubov Transformation (2)
Feb. 23: Nuclear Physics Workshop Feb. 27 (for Feb. 25): Thouless Theorem Mar. 2: Hartree-Fock Method (1)
Mar. 4: Hartree-Fock Method (2) Mar. 9: Hartree-Fock, Lipkin Model Mar. 11: Deformation, Lipkin Model
Mar. 23: Symmetry restoration by projection Mar. 25: Spontaneous symmetry breaking Mar. 30: Hartree-Fock equations
Apr. 1: Constrained Hartree-Fock Apr. 6: Generator Coordinate Method Apr. 13: Pairing, Seniority Model
Apr. 15: Seniority Scheme Apr. 20: Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov, BCS Apr. 22: RPA, Density Functional Theory
Apr. 28: Final Exam